[wiz21c]

Well, admitedly, I don't use all that knowledge at all times. Like many around, I'm super satisfied by being able to write a very complex SQL query knowing that : I won't be constrained by memory, I don't have to think about why the transaction will work, why my connection to the DB will work, how the SQL engine will optimize the damn thing. I just have to contemplate something that it almost business code and produces almost business results.

It's just that I have that warm, reassuring feeeling that if I have to dig down, I'll be able to. Too bad I almost never have to; abstraction works way too good :-)

I'm sure one can be a very good programmer not knowing the assembly stuff behind. And even myself, I don't know exatcly how a CPU works (I mean, I get the logic of it, but I wouldn't be able to make one from scratch) :-)